The Danbury Savings Bank of Connecticut is to be known from today as the Ives bank, after the town’s most famous son.
The bank was founded in 1849 by George Ives, grandfather of the composer, who ran it from the family home. It inculcated a gift for business in the composer, who went on to found the New York insurance agency Ives & Myrick.
The Charles Ives home is now owned by the Danbury Museum and Historical Society.
The post Bank is named after famed composer appeared first on Slippedisc.
In today’s budget statement in Cardiff there was a derisory increase of £1.5 million for the Arts Council of Wales. That will barely cover the rise in coffee prices. The chorus of Welsh National Opera […]
The Dean of Wakefield Cathedral has issued this notification to parents of choir members: It became public this week that Dr Jayson Rhodes, who was a member of clergy here from January 2022 to July […]
In March 1770, the 14-year-old Mozart presented three magnificent arias at a soirée of Count Firmian’s in Milan: this led to his first commission, for an opera seria for one of Italy’s three principal theatres. The resulting […]
